Apparatus for smoking meat products.



No. 650,877. Patented June 5, I900.

T. w. TALIAFERRO.

APPARATUS FOR SMOKING MEAT PRODUCTS.

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APPARATUS FOR SMOKING. MEAT--PRODUCTS.

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THOMAS VARREN TALIAFER APPARATUS" FOR SMOK SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed MarohZB, 1898 To all whom, it may concern;

Be it known that I, THOMAS WARREN TAL IAFERRO, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain usefullmprovem cuts in Apparatus for Smoking Meat Products; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to a new and novel improvement in apparatus for expeditiously handling and smoking meat products in curing the same.

The object of myinvention is to provide a simple apparatus within which meat products and other food compounds are to be smoked, as will be described more fully hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a central sectional View ofan apparatus or smoke-house embodying my invention. Fig. 2 shows an enlarged broken detached detail of one of th'e hangers as used in my invention. Fig. 3 shows a sectional view of one of the hanger-bars as used in my invention. Fig. 4 shows an enlarged end detail disclosing the arrangements of the rail and trolley as used in my devices, while Fig. 5 shows a top view of one of the hanger-bars.

My invention comprises,essentially, a house embodying four retaining-walls 1 and 2 and a top or roof 8, while below I provide an ordinary combustion-chamber, below which is positioned an ash-pit, as is usual, ordinary doors 5 being provided to cover the necessary feed-openings to the ccmbustion-chamber and ash-pit. This structure above the fire-pot, which is divided from the ash-pit by means of an ordinary grate 10, is provided with a series of grate-floors O, which floor-gratings may be of wood, iron, or other any suitable material, so that mysmoking apparatus or house is divided into a series of superposed chambers x, into which chambers extends the trolley-racks upon which are hung the products to be smoked. Above the upper chamber are suitable escape-ways 7, which permit a proper draft, as is usual in devices of this class. Each of the chambers 00 is provided at any suitable point with a suitable air- RO, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

ING M EAT PRODUCTS.

Patent No. 650,877, dated June 5, 1900. Serial Nd. 675,379. (1% ma.)

tight door, the upper chamber in Fig. 1 alone shown as provided with a door which is identified by the numeral 9. WVithin each of these smokechambers and from the roofgratings or ceiling-grating O are one or more trolley-rails A, which are in cross-section in shape of the letter J and which are secured to the grating O by means of suitable stringers B, as is shown in the drawings.

In Fig. 1 I have shownni-y smoking-house or smoking apparatus as forming part of an ordinary packing-house provided with the rooms y, this adjoining structure being provided with a suitable roof and from which extend one or more of the J-shaped trolleyrails directly into the upper smoking-chamber, so that the products may be railed from the adjoining chambers directly into the smoking-house, or vice versa.

The hangers which I use in my device are of peculiar construction and comprise an upper trolley embodying the two horizontal bars 20 and 28, and to the bars 21 are secured the trolley-wheels 23, as is clearly shown. EX- tending to the lower bar 28, which issecured to the bars 21 by any suitable means,is the swiveled hook 2 1, which hook engages a central loop forming part of the main supportingrod 25. At each end this rod is provided with a suitable opening, through which the two end bars 26 pass, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2. Working upon these rods 26 are a series of pipe-sections 35, and between these pipe-sections are held the hanger-bars K, from which bars extend upon opposite sides a series of preferably iron supporting-pins a, from which the products are suspended. The pipe-section 35, as well as the hanger-bars K, being removable are held upon the bars 26 by means of ordinary nuts, which thread upon these bars 26. From this it will be seen that the hangers may be readily adjusted, as they arepermitted a rotary movement by virtue of the swivel-hook 25. To further strengthen the framework, I provide an additional bar 36, which secures the upper hanger bar K to the supporting-bar 25, as is shown in Fig. 1.

In the usual method of smoking meat products the smoking-chambers are provided with a series of bars removably held therein and from which the products are suspended by means of short bars. Considerable time is required in placing the products in the usually-constructed smoke-house, and, further, a great deal of the space is taken up by the cross-bars, which are usually of wood, and, as they collect all the waste particles which drop from the products, are objectionable. Further, the old method requires the labor of from two to four men to remove and pass along the products both in hanging them into the smoke-house and removing them. By means of my device the hangers can be taken to any convenient point within the building and neatly and compactly packed and hung with the meat products to be smoked. The carriers or hangers are then pushed along the track and into the house, where they are swung one against the other in a compact form, as illustrated in the upper section of Fig. l, where two chambers are shown as partly provided with my improved trolleyhangers loaded with meat products to be smoked, these products being marked .5 in the drawings.

Now, having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is-

ments and a rail or guide extending from one compartment to the other, a trolley adapted to travel on said rail or guide, anda rack ineluding vertical side rods, horizontal rods having suspending devices, means for spacing the horizontal rods on the side rods and; means for swiveling the rack to the trolley,

and means for passing products of combustion through one of said compartments for smoking the products suspended from the rack.

2. The combination with a suspended rail or track and a trolley adapted to travel there on, of a rack including vertical rods or bars and a trussed rod or bar connecting them at the upper end, a swivel connection between the trussed bar and the trolley, horizontal rods or bars having their ends mounted on the vertical side rods, and provided with means for the attachment of articles to be suspended, and means for spacing the horizontal rods or bars.

3. The combination with a suspended rail or track and a trolley adapted to travel thereon, of a rack including vertical side rods, a trussed bar or red connecting the upper ends of the side rods, a swivel connection between the trussed rod and the trolley, spacingsleeves loose on the side rods and horizontal bars or rods having their ends disposed between adjacent sleeves, and mounted on the side rods, and laterally-extending rods carried by the horizontal bars or rods and from which articles are to be suspended.

4. A meat-suspending rack including ver= tical rods, horizontal rods or bars removably connecting at their ends with the vertical rods, suspending devices carried by the horizontal rods or bars, removable loose sleeves on the vertical rods and spacing the horizontal rods, and means for suspending the rack 1. The combination of adjacent compartfrom a point above.

5. The combination in a smoke-house of the following instrumentalities to wit: the rail A, a trolley-carriage comprising the bars 20 and 21, and the wheels 23, the swivel-hook 24, and a hanger depending from said hook comprising the rods 26, the pipe-sections 35, the cross-bars K, provided with the bars a, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS WARREN 'lALIAFERRO. Witnesses:

GEO. M. LAWRENCE, E. TRACY. 

